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Cartoon animation of wind blowing by, shown by squiggly lines, pushing cartoon waves to move up a beach and break on shore.

Wave animation
State News Release
A USGS hydrologic technician attaches a storm tide sensor to a pier piling for Hurricane Dorian

USGS deploys wave sensors along Florida’s coast ahead of Hurricane Helene

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A scientist climbs a ladder with a piece of equipment to attach to a palm tree.

USGS deploys wave sensors along Florida's coast ahead of Hurricane Helene
National News Release
As US models predicted Hurricane Joaquin washed out a road at Kitty Hawk, NC in 2015.

This hurricane season, scientists bring wave action into the picture

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A scientist installs a piece of equipment along the base of a long, concrete pier leading out the ocean.

USGS deploys wave sensors along Florida's coast ahead of Hurricane Helene
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Large wave at Daytona Beach, Florida, explained as a squall-line surge

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A scientist installs a piece of equipment along the base of a long pier leading out the ocean.

USGS deploys wave sensors along Florida's coast ahead of Hurricane Helene
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Baches forecast to be affected by Hurricane Barry

Barry's wave, surge likely to affect beaches in four states
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Shoaling wave shape estimates from field observations and derived bedload sediment rates

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Forecasted Gulf Coast beach erosion due to Hurricane Barry

Barry's wave, surge likely to affect beaches in four states
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Wave runup during Tropical Storm Colin at Madeira Beach, Florida
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Large-scale variation in wave attenuation of oyster reef living shorelines and the influence of inundation duration

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Flooding extent polygons for modelled wave-driven water levels in Florida with and without projected coral reef degradation

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Projected flooding extents and depths based on 10-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year wave-energy return periods for the State of Florida, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands for current and potentially restored coral reefs

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Projected flooding extents and depths based on 10-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year wave-energy return periods for the State of Florida and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico before and after Hurricanes Irma and Maria due to the storms' damage to the coral reefs

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Cruise Report; RV Moana Wave cruise M1-01-GM; the bathymetry and acoustic backscatter of the mid shelf to upper slope off Panama City, Florida, northeastern Gulf of Mexico; September 3, through October 12, 2001, Panama City, FL to Panama City, FL

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Projected flooding extents and depths based on 10-, 50-, 100-, and 500-year wave-energy return periods, with and without coral reefs, for the States of Hawaii and Florida, the Territories of Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands,

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20-7. Three-dimensional modeling of reef-fronted coastlines

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Predicting characteristic length scales of barrier island segmentation in microtidal environments

National News Release
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Coral Reefs are Critical for Risk Reduction & Adaptation

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View of the beach

Sand Key, Florida
National News Release
Hurricane Dorian

USGS deploying 175 storm-tide sensors in Fla., Ga.

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RUSH: Rapid remote sensing Updates of land cover for Storm and Hurricane forecast models

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Heat-driven functional extinction of Caribbean Acropora corals from Florida's Coral Reef

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Multiscale framework for assessing land cover change on barrier islands from extreme storms and restoration

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A concrete block on the seafloor with a yellow line extending from it, connected to an instrument.

Anchor system for a smart mooring and spotter buoy
Featured Films and Shorts
Text "Exploring Storm Surge" over top of a flooded road.

Exploring Storm Surge
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A cinderblock with monitoring devices on it sits in shallow water on a reef with corals growing on it and off in the distance.

Elkhorn coral in Biscayne National Park
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Coral reef restoration can reduce coastal contamination and pollution hazards

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A SCUBA diver underwater next to a buoy extending from a concrete block on the seafloor

Scientific diver at an anchor station for oceanographic buoy
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